Kaki King - ...Until We Felt Red (2006)

Posted By: Designol

Date: July 12, 2023

Kaki King has never been one for convention. Her third album (following 2003's "Everybody Loves You" on Velour and 2004's "Legs To Make Us Longer" on Epic) is certainly no exception. Over the last few years, she's enjoyed well-earned status as the zeit-girl of instrumental acoustic guitar. Here she bests herself and defies expectation again, ditching her acoustic for an electric, lap steel, and perhaps the most unexpected instrument of all: her own voice; disarmingly winsome and sweet for a woman with so much attitude. The haunting melodies are sadder, the lush orchestrations are fuller, and the sharp edges can cut.

Having established herself on her debut as an important new acoustic guitar voice, and having expanded the sonic palette on her second to include other instrumentation, Kaki King once again rethinks her approach from the ground up on number three. While there is still deft fingerstyle guitar to spare, more of King's picking is set inside of a greater context – percussion and light orchestration provide new universes for her to explore, and she revels in the experimental possibilities. Much of Until We Felt Red retains the lighter-than-air feel of the first two albums, Everybody Loves You and Legs to Make Us Longer, but King takes greater care here to fill the spaces with often unanticipated sounds and textures. Both electric guitars and electronics in general, and King's whispery sweet vocal – itself used more for coloring than to make important lyrical statements – also take a front-row seat here. But this is neither a singer/songwriter album nor an attempt to use technology for its own sake. Everything King brings to Until We Felt Red, produced by John McEntire, is in service of the composition, and if that means verging on improvisational jazz, or washing a melody in the quasi-baroque, as she does on "You Don't Have to Be Afraid," then so be it. The set-closing "Gay Sons of Lesbian Mothers," with its thumped bass and slide guitar, veers toward funk with a touch of Nashville tossed in. But those seeking the imaginative, intricate acoustic playing that characterized King's earlier work need not, well, fret. Every track – notably "Ahuvati," "First Brain," "Second Brain," and the title track – is rich with gleaming guitaristry. What's different is that King, whose first notices came when she entertained New York subway riders, can no longer be described simply as a guitarist. From here on, she'll be watched as a complete artist.

Review by Jeff Tamarkin, Allmusic.com

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Tracklist:

01. Yellowcake (02:51)
02. …Until We Felt Red (04:54)
03. You Don't Have To Be Afraid (08:10)
04. Goby (03:26)
05. Jessica (03:41)
06. First Brain (03:40)
07. I Never Said I Love You (04:30)
08. Ahuvati (03:42)
09. These Are The Armies Of The Tyrannized (05:19)
10. Second Brain (03:04)
11. Soft Shoulder (02:52)
12. The Footsteps Die Out Forever (02:15)
13. Gay Sons Of Lesbian Mothers (04:07)

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Exact Audio Copy V0.99 prebeta 3 from 28. July 2007

EAC extraction logfile from 26. November 2007, 21:30

Kaki King / …Until We Felt Red

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Analyzed: Kaki King / …Until We Felt Red
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